Biology:Chromulinales

Short description: Order of algae

Chromulinales
Dinobryon divergens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	SAR
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Gyrista
Subphylum:	Ochrophytina
Class:	Chrysophyceae
Order:	Chromulinales Pascher, 1910

Chromulinales is an order of Chrysophyceae, golden-brown algae or golden algae. It was first identified and defined by Adolf Pascher (1881–1945) in 1910.

Families

According to the GBIF;

• Chrysamoebaceae - (contains Chrysamoeba, Chrysidiastrum, Chrysostephanosphaera, Leukochrysis and Rhizochrysis)
• Chrysocapsaceae - (contains Chrysocapsa, Chrysocapsella, Chrysomorula, Dermatochrysis, Gloeochrysis, Naegeliella, Pascherella, Phaeaster and Tetrasporopsis)
• Chrysococcaceae - (contains Chrysococcocystis Doflein, 1923)
• Chrysolepidomonadaceae - (contains Chrysolepidomonas M.C.Peters & R.A.Andersen, 1993)
• Chrysosphaeraceae - (contains Chrysosphaera Pascher, 1914)
• Chrysothallaceae - (contains Phaeoplaca Chodat, 1926
• Dinobryaceae - (contains Calycomonas, Chrysococcus, Chrysolykos, Conradocystis, Dinobryon, Dinobryopsis, Epipyxis, Kephyrion, Kephyriopsis, Lepochromulina, Ochromonas, Ollicola, Phaeosphaera, Poterioochromonas, Pseudokephyrion, Sphaerobryon, Stenokalyx, Stokesiella, Stylobryon, Stylochrysalis and Stylopyxis)

Note; Previously included families Chromulinaceae and Paraphysomonadaceae have both been moved to Ochromonadales order.

Incertae sedis

Unplaced genera, includes;

• Amphichrysis Korshikov, 1929
• Anthophysa Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1822
• Chrysobotriella E.Strand, 1928
• Chrysoxys Skuja, 1948
• Mucosphaera A.J.Dop & A.P.van Beem, 1980
• Oikomonas Kent, 1880
• Pedospumella Boenigk & Findenig, 2010
• Phaeobotrys
• Synuropsis J.Schiller, 1929

References

Wikidata ☰ Q5113933 entry